SuaviloquyToday’s word

easiness

Easiness, n.

1. The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

2. Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

3. Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness. Give to him, and he shall but laugh at your easiness. South.

4. Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc. With painful care, but seeming easiness. Roscommon.

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5. Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for easiness; he lists it under ease.

Where he writes about it:

Easiness applies to the thing done, rather than to the doer. — from ease